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Exaggerated prophecies of gloom had surrounded Dean Acheson's departure for the London and Lisbon parleys. Last week, reporting on his trip over a radio-TV hookup, Acheson countered with an exaggerated picture of sunlight and good cheer. Said he: "The past two weeks have been a time of historic decision . . . They have brought us to the dawn of a new day in Europe." Acheson based his claim on "five major accomplishments" of the London and Lisbon meetings...
From Down to Up. With these decisions made beforehand in London, and endorsed in Lisbon by the NATO council, the gloom lifted almost too easily. In Lisbon's sunlight it was hard to face the big, sobering fact: that NATO's decisions are only decisions on paper...
...artist spent several months in Corsica, but seemed to have found no more sunlight than he used to filter on to his dark canvases at home. Another, surrounded by the lush scenery of CuraÇcao, painted the same intricate abstractions that she did before she went away. A third went to Spain, and seemed to have seen the same landscapes he had known between The Hague and the Hook of Holland...
...probably will. The snow is transmuted now, no longer white and crystaline but tough and tenacious, resistant to rain and sunlight alike. It will lie dormant, waiting for that last clear shot at the springs of a passing car. And the frantic garagemen will push ahead with their car removal, racing the phantom plows, never realizing for a minute that God will take care of the snow...
...though a providential stage manager had planned it, chose that moment to break through the dismal overcast. As the heraldic procession moved on, in gilded coaches, to proclaim the great tidings at other key points in the city, Londoners felt a warmth in their hearts like the sudden sunlight. The dead King was not forgotten, but today they had a new Queen...